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nextflow

Nextflow is a bioinformatics workflow manager that enables the development of portable and reproducible workflows. It supports deploying workflows on a variety of execution platforms including local, HPC schedulers, AWS Batch, Google Genomics Pipelines, and Kubernetes. Additionally, it provides support for manage your workflow dependencies through built-in support for Conda, Docker, Singularity, and Modules.

Information

Usage

See versions of nextflow which are available:

$ module avail nextflow

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load nextflow/24.04
$ nextflow

See the nextflow documentation for information about how to use it.

Note:: by default nextflow writes temporary data to /tmp, which may not have adequate storage space depending on your pipeline. Please configure your workflow to use /var/scratch instead. See the configuration link above for information about how to do that.

Installation

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/nextflow/24.04/bin
$ sudo wget https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/download/v24.04.2/nextflow-24.04.2-all -O /export/apps/nextflow/24.04/bin/nextflow
$ sudo chmod +x /export/apps/nextflow/24.04/bin/nextflow